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China Poised To Surpass The U.S. As The World’s Top Nuclear Power Producer

R-Squared Energy

The is the sixth article in a series on the recently released 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy. Previous articles discussed the trends in global carbon dioxide emissions , the overall highlights of the Review, the production and consumption of petroleum, natural gas production and consumption, and coal production and consumption.

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Global Energy Trends From The 2023 Statistical Review Of World Energy

R-Squared Energy

Today, I will cover the recently published 2023 report’s highlights. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. Natural gas and coal demand stayed nearly flat with oil rebounding close to pre-pandemic levels. to a new high of 34.4

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California’s Shift From Natural Gas to Solar Is Playing a Role in Rolling Blackouts

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Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. ” California has also lost a good deal of the generation capacity that it had in years past, he said.

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Global Coal Consumption Returns To Record Levels

R-Squared Energy

The is the fifth article in a series on the recently released 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy. Previous articles discussed the trends in global carbon dioxide emissions , the overall highlights of the Review, the production and consumption of petroleum, and natural gas production and consumption. Allow me to illustrate.

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California Demands 3.3GW of New Resources by 2023 to Meet Looming Grid Shortfall

GreenTechMedia

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. The all-source procurement is technically open to existing natural gas plants.

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Low carbon generation set to meet electricity demand growth – IEA

Smart Energy International

The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. in 2023, less than the 2.4% In 2023 the share of electricity in final energy consumption is estimated to have reached 20%, up from 18% in 2015.

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Alberta Promises Cenovus $7 Million to Study Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

DeSmogBlog

It will focus on the feasibility of using nuclear power as an energy source to power steam assisted gravity drainage process , also known as SAGD. So you would be eliminating the emissions because you’re eliminating the burning of natural gas to oil, the water to create the steam.”